David Brin, L.E. Modesitt Jr., Jacqueline Carey, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Heinlein, Richard Morgan Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett are the new Trinity.
Stranger in a Strange Land, Kushiel's Dart, Devil's Dictionary, Mother of Storms, Adiamante, The Parafaith War, Broken Angels
(obsolete waste of paper)
Megatokyo, xkcd
No type, just whatever's good... see below
Beethoven, Lords of Acid, Megadeth, Nirvana, Danny Elfmann, Mozart, Kiss, MD.45, NIN, Type O Negative, David Bowie, Enya, Devo, NoFX, Coal Chamber, Jeff Buckley, Paul Oakenfold, Crystal Method, Prodigy, Future Sound of London
Let's just say that I don't suffer from eurotophobia.